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Favourite Chocolate Delight : Chef Manikandan, Fortune Park Lake City, Thane

Chocolate unites us all!

If there ever was anything that everyone unanimously agreed upon, it would be about chocolate’s delicious taste.

During these tough times, it is essential to keep up your mood and nothing better than having a bite of a chocolate dessert!

Today’s Traveller invites Chef Manikandan, Fortune Park Lake City, Thane to share his favourite Choco Delight…

Chef edited scaled Favourite Chocolate Delight : Chef Manikandan, Fortune Park Lake City, Thane
Chef Manikandan, Fortune Park Lake City, Thane

The Brownie

Brownie Pecan

  • 350 G Whole eggs tempered
  • 225 G Caster sugar
  • 225 G Caster sugar
  • 360 G Clarified butter
  • 135 G Flour type 55
  • 70 G Egg whites tempered
  • 160 G Roasted Pecan or Walnut
  • 260 G sao palme 60%

Melt the chocolate, add the clarified liquid butter. Check the temperature; it must be 45/50°, Whisk the eggs, egg whites and sugars together until the mixture is smooth and well beaten. Pour the butter and chocolate mixture into the eggs. Mix evenly. sift the flour and add to the previous mixture. Finally, add the crushed Pecan nuts. Pour into a 30x40cm frame. Bake at 160° c for 12 to 15 minutes. Let it cool and cut into portions.

Milk Chocolate cream

  • 200 G Milk full cream
  • 10 G Glucose
  • 28 G Gelatin mass
  • 300 G Bahibe 46%
  • 400 G Cream UHT 35%

Bring the milk and the glucose to a boil in a pot When the mixture has boiled and while it is still burning hot, pour it over the chocolate and emulsify Finish the procedure of emulsion by using a hand mixer and then add the whipping cream in a fluid state Leave the Namelaka in a fridge for a night to get stable.

Favourite Chocolate Delight - The Brownie by Chef Manikandan, Fortune Park Lake City, Thane
Favourite Choco Delight – The Brownie by Chef Manikandan, Fortune Park Lake City, Thane

Milk Chocolate Pate Glacer

  • 700 G Milk chocolate 40%
  • 150 G Hazelnut paste 100%
  • 50 G Grape seed oil
  • 126 G Chopped roasted almond

Melt the chocolate to 45ºC, add the hazelnut paste and the grape seed oil, add the pre-roasted runched

hazelnut, use at 32ºC.

Dark Glaze

  • 150 gm Water
  • 300 gm Sugar
  • 300 gm Glucose
  • 200 gm Condensed milk
  • 120 gm Gelatin mass
  • 330 gm 75%Dark chocolate
  • q.s red color

bring the water, sugar and glucose to boil @104C, add the gelatin mass, condensed milk and dark chocolate & color into the mixrure, blend well with immersion blender, strain and cool, use @ 33c to glaze

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